A completely revised edition of this guidebook for adult children who care for aging parents, with new information on nursing homes and an updated resource section.
This helpful, compassionate guide for individuals who are involved in caring for aging parents, (and for those who see caretaking in their future) centers on the emotional stresses and needs of caregivers, while at the sametime addressing all the practical issues they are likely to confront. Claire Berman–drawing on her own experiences, the experiences of many other adult children, and interviews with specialists in geriatrics–discusses the wide range of emotions that can accompany caregiving.
Caring for Yourself, While Caring for Your Aging Parents provides the confidence and practical tools necessary to balance the needs of the parent and the caregiver. Berman provides an invaluable safety net for those going through a difficult time and emphasizes that the caregiver safeguard his or her own physical and emotional health to avoid becoming the burned-out “second patient. Berman shows how to choose dedication over martyrdom and self-preservation over selflessness. There is also sensible advice on common dilemmas caregivers encounter, including those involving adult day-care, in-home care, support groups, sibling tension, and marital conflicts.
Completely revised with a new chapter on nursing homes, as well as updated statistics and resources throughout, CARING FOR YOURSELF WHILE CARING FOR YOUR AGING PARENTS shows readers that there is much they can do to help themselves and their parents through the stressful and humbling challenges that so many of us face today.
In today’s mobile society, many families need help in assisting older loved ones who live far away. The miles can make this task complicated, stressful and time consuming. Field Guide For Families helps families learn how and when to help their older loved one. Packed with practical solutions, Field Guide For Families helps families better understand the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes that come with aging. Many families need help to quickly assess and evaluate what is needed. Intended to guide families in knowing what to do and when to step in, this book includes over twenty Checklists for Successful Aging, which provide timely evaluation and solutions for the most difficult challenges to successful aging.
Mom Comes Home is the touching story of a young family’s failures and successes in trying to take care of a mother who has suffered a debilitating stroke. “How can we preserve dignity–our parents’ and our own–in a new relationship defined by age and sickness? What happens when Mom comes home?”
Gilbert Guide provides the ultimate guidebook to finding the best in long-term care. Gilbert Guide: Bay Area Edition covers the entire spectrum of long-term care options in San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, Southern Napa and Sonoma counties-from skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, to geriatric care management, homecare, hospice and more. Every facility, organization and individual listed in our guides has been handpicked by our team of experts. Gilbert Guide is accurate, authoritative and completely independent. We do not accept advertising, or payment for any type of content. Gilbert Guide exists solely to serve the needs and interests of our readers. That’s why we list only the very best options in local long-term care. You won’t find the information in Gilbert Guide anywhere else-much less in one place. Gilbert Guide is designed for long-term care professionals as well as family caregivers. We’re proud that our guides empower readers to make the right choices for themselves and the people they care about.
“My parent needs help, but refuses to consider a nursing home.” That’s the dilemma facing millions of baby boomers today. How can we ensure responsible, compassionate, even uplifting care for our aging parents at home? Mindfulness is key, Ann Cason writes. Good care begins with watching and listening, with entering the elder’s world and accepting it. Drawing on decades of experience in caring for the elderly, Cason helps us understand how old age feels and how we can help. Then, through exercises, care studies, and numerous examples and suggestions, Circles of Care shows how to: Work out a plan of care Assemble and foster a caregiving team Create an uplifting daily routine-and vary it creatively Plan nutrition, medical needs, finances, and outings Improve the elder’s personal care and physical environment Ease conflicts between elders and their caregivers or families Avoid caregiver burnout Work with mood swings, confusion, and memory loss
Everything you need to know to care for your loved one at home!
The answers you need–the personal, “been there” advice you can trust
Mankato State Univ., MN. Strategies for making leisure part of the caregiving experience. Includes physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual activities. For caregivers and laypeople. Softcover edition, hardcover also available. 
Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux’s account of her mother’s steady decline spans a period of nearly three years. When her mother first becomes ill, Ernaux takes her in. Soon, it becomes painfully obvious that professional help is needed. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her mother enters a nursing home, never to leave. As it explores the complexities of death and parent-child role reversal, Ernaux’s latest work takes its place on the shelf beside John Bayley’s Elegy for Iris and Roger Kamenetz’s Terra Infirma. “As revealed by Ernaux, the details of a loved one’s deterioration have such emblematic force and terror that the particular becomes universal.” – The New York Times Book Review
Lord, Help! Here Comes Mom! offers a true, slice-of-life look into the lives of a single mother, two teenagers, and a college student as they embark on the journey of caring for their 85-year-old mother and grandmother after she sells the home she has lived in for 47 years and moves across the country to live near them. Readers will roar with laughter at times while being moved to tears at others as they find themselves caught up in this timeless story of family, love, commitment and renewal.
